United StatesInternational News Service v. Associated Press
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Decided 23 December 1918 by the Supreme Court of the United States.
A hot news misappropriation rule binding public and private bodies.
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The Supreme Court held that a wire service copying factual news content from a competitor's public bulletins and distributing it to customers constituted actionable unfair competition (misappropriation), even though bare facts are not copyrightable. This decision established the 'hot-news' doctrine, though the Supreme Court later abandoned federal common law in Erie R.R. v. Tompkins (1938), leaving hot-news claims to state law and Copyright Act preemption analysis.
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